Now that we have SMS and Facebook, are the old instant messaging methods becoming obsolete? We recently posted power-up guides for Pidgin and Adium that were of little interest to most people despite being the most popular chat clients on their respective platforms. It seems that they just may not matter a whole lot anymore. So, we want to know: how are you communicating quickly these days? Are you still using traditional IM clients on the desktop, have you relegated that task to the web, or is it something else entirely? Share your methods in the comments.